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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 31, 1994
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Iowa State slips past 'Hawks
Kansas pitcher Chris Corn hit a slump in the fifth inning, allowing Iowa State to score seven runs. The game, which lasted more than four hours, went into extra innings yesterday at Hogwell-Maupin Stadium where the Cyclones defeated the Jayhawks 19-15 in the 12th inning.
Wild pitches poor hitting aid Cyclones
By Andrew Gilman Kansan sportswriter
Hardly.
It was a shame someone had to lose this baseball game.
Yesterday at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium, Kansas and Iowa State pet on possibly one of the ugliest games that Kansas coach Dave Bingham can remember.
"It's been a long time since I've seen something like this," Bingham said. "We had no concept of how to stop people from scoring."
When the teams left the field more than four hours after the 3 p.m. start, Iowa State had put Kansas out of its misery with a 19-15 victory.
He was referring to the 34 runs, the 34 hits, the 28 walks, the 10 wild pitches and the 12 errors for the two teams combined.
The Cyclones emerged victorious — finally, after a seven-run 12th inning.
Iowa State improved to 7-14 overall and 1-5 in Big Eight Conference play. Kansas dropped to 20-7 and 6-3, but it had plenty of chances.
The Jayhawks scored in every inning except the ninth and the 11th and had the winning run at third base in the bottom of the ninth and at second base in the 11th, but they could not get the game-winning hit.
Freshman right fielder Justin Headley, who went three for seven, said the Jayhawks just had not been able to get the big hit.
"You can't get a hit every time," he said. "It just didn't come through tonight."
But then he hit the fifth inning.
Early in the game, it looked as though senior pitcher Chris Corn was well on his way to his fifth victory against no losses.
With Kansas leading 5-1, Corn proceeded to give up two walk, four hits and a wild pitch, which led to seven Iowa State runs and an 8-5 Jayhawk deficit.
Corn, who did not figure in the decision, gave up eight runs on eight hits in five innings.
But Kansas bounced back with
The Jayhawks could not hold the lead, and then it was the Cyclones turn to score.
Freshman pitcher Jason Schreiber came in to start the eighth inning after freshman Robert Garola pitched two scoreless innings of relief.
Schreiber, after striking out the only two men he faced Tuesday night, suddenly became mortal. He walked the first two batters he faced, and after a Brent Wilhelm
error, he walked another. Bingham had seen enough, and he called on junior shortstop/pitcher Dan Rude.
But things got worse. Rude gave up two wild pitches in two throws, and that paved the way for the Cyclones to take an 11-10 advantage.
After the Jayhawks tied the game in the eighth, the two teams each registered a run in the 10th and went scoreless in the 11th. That's when the bottom fell out on Rude and the Jayhawks.
Four hits and five walks in the inning proved to be too much, and
the Cyclones tailed seven runs for the second time in the game.
Kansas brought the tying run to the plate in its half of the 12th inning, but sophomore second baseman Clint Hardesty, Tuesday night's hero, grounded out to second, and the game ended.
last-place team, Kansas players and Bingham said they were confident.
"This team won't break down," Headley said. "We can't worry about this loss, we've got Missouri this weekend."
Rude, who was saddled with the loss, said he had not been comfortable on the mound.
"I was just trying to throw strikes," he said. "I'm typically a one-inning guy."
The No. 16 Jayhawks will play Missouri at home at 7 p.m. Friday at Hogland-Maup Stadium.
Even though the Jayhawks lost for just the second time this season at home, to the conference's
Bingham agreed.
"This isn't the same Kansas team that has been playing," he said. "That's just as much the coaches' fault as the players. We'll come back and make some adjustments."
Baseball cures March Madness
Like a lot of people, I spent my spare time during Spring Break watching a lot of basketball. Sure, I watched Kansas play; but there were also all the games before, after and even in-between halves of
Kansas basketball games.
I honestly watched teams play I have never seen in my life.
It seems as if I watched every imaginable college team in the nation play — between the NCAA Tournament and Kansas State in the NIT (Nobody's Interested Tournament).
Talk about March Madness – things got downright crazy. But, hey, by week's end, every team I wanted to see play in the Final Four was knocked out of the tournament, and underdog K-State lost to Vanderbilt 82-76 in the NIT semi-finals Monday night.
I was saved. There's nobody left for whom I care to cheer — so fortunately, I still have my sanity.
To make a long story short, I'm basketballed out.
After Monday night, I decided that it was time to redirect by energy toward another sport, something to partake of in the great outdoors.
I picked up a Kansas spring sports schedule and saw quite a selection: Softball, tennis, swimming, outdoor track and baseball.
In choosing a spring sport, this weather situation here in Kansas must be taken into account.
It's hard to be a loyal outdoor spring-sports enthusiast in Kansas when it's 75 degrees one day and snowing the next. It depends on the team you're watching.
The Kansas baseball team played Iowa State on Tuesday night. It was freezing outside. When I left the Hoglund-Maupin Stadium numb from head to toe, I still was estatic to witness the victory.
I made my way down to the stadium by 9 p.m. Kansas was down 7-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning.
No way. I had walked clear across campus to the stadium with the sole desire of watching a great game and another Javahawk victory, and they were down by six?
A definite crisis was on hand. I sat down, and Kansas began to work its magic. The Jayhawks ended up winning 10-9.
There's a lot to say about the Kansas baseball team.
Last year, Kansas made it to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., winning a school-record 45 games on the way. Ten players took all-conference honors, and six players were selected in the Major League Baseball draft.
That was last year. This year's team is building on tradition and looking in quite the same form.
The Jayhawks are 20-7 overall, 6-3 in the Big Eight Conference.
When I make it to games, I'm always surprised that there aren't more people in the stands.
Maybe students don't know when the games are, or maybe they have too much homework to do. That's understandable.
But hey, on a nice spring day when there's nothing else to do, I can't imagine much I'd rather do than put on a pair of shorts, walk down to the stadium with some friends and watch Kansas play baseball, en route to the College World Series.
It's a great time, and they're a great ball team. But don't take my word for it. See for yourself.
Long jumper wants 26 feet behind him
By Matt Siegel
Kansan sportswriter
All athletes have times when they aren't performing at their best for a variety of reasons. Senior Harun Hazim, a long jumper for the Jayhawks, has had a difficult season that has caused him a lot of anguish and heartbreak.
His troubles began in February at the Big Eight Indoor Championships. Hazim said he had been ready to break the conference indoor record of 26 feet. When Hazim showed up at the competition, the last indoor meet of the season, he heard his name announced over the intercom for the 54-meter dash.
Occasionally, Hazim had run the 55-meter dash for the Jayhawks, but that was at the beginning of the season. None of the coaches had informed him that he was entered in the event. He assumed that it was a mistake.
It wasn't. And an NCAA rule — which automatically disqualifies an athlete who misses any event from any other events —
took away Hazim's last chance to beat the indoor record.
"It was frustrating," Hazim said. "It was like a ton of bricks it hit me. I just sat there for 30 minutes. I was mad at everybody because I was looking forward to breaking the record. I can't describe it. It was a bad situation. I just put it behind me."
But he could not put the rest of his troubles behind him. This season he was jumping 26 feet or more, Hazim said, but none of the jumps were legal. In the long jump, an athlete gets three attempts in the preliminary rounds. An athlete qualifies for the final by placing in the top seven. In the final round, the qualifiers are given three more jumps.
Hazim said he had not had a legal jump in the last three meets. In the preliminaries, he said, he would take one safe jump just to make sure that he qualified for the finals, only to scratch once he got there.
"I consider myself one of the top long jumpers in the nation, but I can't get a legal jump in," said Hirming, standing up and toeing an imaginary line, demonstrating the
"I have kids who have had this problem in the past," Attig said. "I think he will get it together. You can do drills, drills and more drills but concentration is the key. If you lose your concentration on your approach for a split second, it all falls apart. He came into this year with a different attitude. He was a lot more serious. He is capable of popping off some big jumps."
To help him not scratch, Hazim is working with assistant track coach Rick Attig. Hazim said that he had done everything — changed his approach, changed his stride and speed — but that nothing had worked.
length he is over. "It's frustrating when you jump over 26 feet and it doesn't count because I was a quarter of an inch over the board. I should have been in nationals and been in the top four or five. You look in the papers and see these All-Americans with jumps of 26, which I can beat. That's why I call myself the most underrated long jumper in college. Twenty-seven feet is a very realistic goal for me."
Although scratching has been a little bit of problem in the past, Hazim said, it has
"I'm so much stronger and quicker than I was then," Hazim said. "It's pitiful. I have the kind of talent to win nationals. If I jump 27 feet and it's a scratch, I'll quit. I will take off my spikes and go back to Topeka. if I can get four or five legal jumps off, I know I can break the Big Eight outdoor record of 26 feet, 6 inches. I can almost guarantee it."
His inability to land a jump has left Hazin confused, he said, but determined to prove to himself and to others that he can jump more than 26 feet legally. What bothers Hazin the most, though, is that his longest-recorded jump was as a sophomore when he jumped 25 feet, 11 inches.
His attitude, despite the setbacks, remains positive.
never been this pronounced. In practice he jumps fine, but at a meet something happens, he said.
"It's driving me insane," Hazim said. "I'm going through a tough time, but sooner or later I'm going to break out. My time is coming."
Amv Solt / KANSAN
Senior long jumper Hazim has scratched every time he has attempted to jump 26 feet. Despite the frustration in indoor meets, Hazim has been practicing to break the Big Eight outdoor record of 26 feet, 6 inches.
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